Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting
A Chrome Extension for Cloudinary That Helps You Pluck Out Useful Media URLs From Your Library Quickly |
Cloudinary is a host for your digital assets like images and video. If you don't already know them, you should, because you can build it into the asset
How to start using reusable workflows with GitHub Actions
Reusable workflows offer a simple and powerful way to avoid copying and pasting workflows across your repositories.
SVGcode for Live Tracing Raster Images
A free online tool called SVGcode by Thomas Steiner is capable of an effect called "Live Trace" that converts a raster image into a vector image.
Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Steven Hoober shines the spotlight on Fitts’ Law and explains why we should always ask questions and consider what particular guidelines and lessons mean to our users and our products.
Email Routing is now in open beta, available to everyone
Cloudflare Email Routing transitioned from closed beta to open beta. It’s now available to everyone, including free zones
Implement restrictive access using the Dropbox API
Learn to implement restricted access with nested permissions and folders in the Dropbox API.
Improving the developer experience for Dependabot alerts
Today, we’re shipping improvements to Dependabot alerts that make them easier to understand and remediate.
Using QR Codes In Your Business: Best Practices And Pitfalls — Smashing Magazine
While QR codes have many uses and can be leveraged at many touch points, they are just one of dozens of technologies that can improve the customer’s journey. Stanislav Khrustalev shares his advice with a list of things to keep in mind when using QR codes for your business.
Release Radar
Here’s January’s top staff picks on projects that shipped major version releases.
Need to keep analytics data in the EU? Cloudflare Zaraz can offer a solution
Zaraz offers a way to use tools like Google Analytics, but doing so with an approach that protects the privacy of personal information and keeps it in the EU
Building a newbie-friendly codebase
Pedro Santos suggests:
How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and start to love long-lived connections
Often programmers have assumptions that turn out, to their surprise, to be invalid. From my experience this happens a lot. Every API, technology or system can be abused beyond its limits and break in a miserable way
Building a Scrollable and Draggable Timeline with GSAP
Here's a super classy demo from Michelle Barker over on Codrops that shows how to build a scrollable and draggable timeline with GSAP. It's an interesting
GitHub Availability Report: January 2022
In January, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Rapid Development with Hydrogen: Building a Product Page - Shopify
Hydrogen's currently in developer preview and I'm excited to show you how you can rapidly build out a simple product page by leaning on Hydrogen's components.
The evolution of the Web: What we learned and where we’re going
The Optional Chaining Operator, “Modern” Browsers, and My Mom
Jim Nielsen's mom couldn't open a website. Jim worked on confirming the issue and documented how he got to the bottom of it:
Misidentifying talent
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
Cocktail party ideas
Mesfin Mekonnen: Senior Engineer
Tell us more about working on Spotify Wrapped…
Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size
At Spotify, we strive to make our apps available to as many people as possible. As mobile developers, that means we want everybody to be able to download our app without hiccups or constraints.
Search Journey Towards Better Experimentation Practices
At Spotify, we aim to build and improve our product in a data-informed way. To do that, teams are encouraged to generate and test hypotheses by running experiments and gathering evidence for what works and what doesn’t.
Dependency graph now supports GitHub Actions
The dependency graph helps developers and maintainers understand the code they depend on, and now includes GitHub Actions!
28 Days Of Inspiration (February 2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Do you need a little inspiration boost? Well, then our new batch of desktop wallpapers is for you. Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they come in versions with and without a calendar for February 2022 and can be downloaded for free. As a little bonus goodie, we also compiled some timeless treasures from past February editions at the end of this post for you. Enjoy!
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Happy Data Privacy Day!
On this Data Privacy Day, we look back at how events in 2021 shaped the privacy world, and we look ahead to what 2022 may have in store
What Web Frameworks Solve And How To Do Without Them (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Noam Rosenthal dives deep into a few technical features that are common across frameworks, and explains how some of the different frameworks implement them and what they cost, focusing on data-binding, reactivity, conditionals and lists. You will also take a look at the cost of using those frameworks.
Migrating to Cloudflare Email Routing
With Email Routing, you can effectively start receiving Emails in any of your domains for any number of custom addresses you want and forward the messages to any existing destination mailboxes
Protecting Holocaust educational websites
Cloudflare’s Project Galileo provides free protection to at-risk groups across the world including Holocaust educational and remembrance websites
2021 Transparency Report
In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more “Making the web better. With blocks!”
An old photo of a very large BBS
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here’s GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
Hosting my static sites with nginx
Hosting my static sites with nginx
Release Radar
Our community has been hard at work through December shipping updates. Here’s our staff picks for open source projects with major version releases.
Node and How it Works With npm
Let's look at Node and how it plays alongside npm to install features and tooling as packages in modern front-end web development.
Install npm in a Few Easy Steps
In this article, we'll install npm and Node, then make a little sample project to give you real hands-on experience working with the npm basics
How to Install npm Packages
Next up in this beginner’s guide to npm is likely why you’re here in the first place: installing npm packages, which uses the `npm install` command.
Open source creates value, but how do you measure it?
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn’t just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
Cloud, Load, and Modular Code: What 2022 Looks Like for Shopify - Shopify
Shopify CTO Allan Leinwand outlines some of the company's biggest engineering priorities for 2022.
Tomonari Sato: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Japan
I’m excited to announce that I recently joined Cloudflare in Japan as Vice-President and Managing Director, to help build and expand our customer, partner base, and presence in Japan
How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space
With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science.
The 60 Hottest Front-end Tools of 2021
A complete list of the most popular front-end tools in 2021, according to the Web Tools Weekly newsletter. See which resources made the list.
A Workers optimization that reduces your bill
Recently, we made an optimization to the Cloudflare Workers runtime which reduces the amount of time Workers need to spend in memory. We're passing the savings on to you for all your Unbound Workers
Making Your First Custom Svelte Transition
The Svelte transition API provides a way to animate components when they enter or leave the document, including custom Svelte transitions.
Search at Shopify—Range in Data and Engineering is the Future - Shopify
At Shopify, we draw very few lines between “data” and “engineering” work. Instead we have “search” work.
A Practical Tip For Using Sass Default Parameters
Sass offers functions and mixins that accept parameters. You can use Sass default parameters, that is, parameters that have a value even if you don't provide
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻
How five open source communities are using GitHub Discussions
From answering questions about a new release to fielding feature requests, here’s how five open source communities use GitHub Discussions.
Open Source & Sustainability
I don't feel confident operating or maintaining open source. That makes me scared of it, and my fear makes me avoid doing it at all.
Former R&D Engineer Wins Round 2 of Project Jengo, and Cloudflare Wins at the Patent Office
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here is the latest case update, along with our second round of winners.
Make Beautiful Gradients
Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
The year ahead: a conversation with Soleio, Julie Zhuo, and May-Li Khoe
Reflections, predictions, and guidance for 2022
Cloudflare Innovation Weeks 2021
As we start planning our 2022 Innovation Weeks, we are reflecting back on the highlights from each of these weeks
Changing A Tire On A Moving Car (Or How To Improve Product Roadmaps) — Smashing Magazine
Product roadmaps are often treated as a series of checkboxes. But they are more than that. Having a loose product landscape offers a flexible way to be strategic and decisive about how to chip away at the big picture. Not dealing with can eventually leave you stranded on the roadside without a spare to keep you going. In this article, Scott Himmer explains how internal partnerships, research, desi
Internet shut down in Kazakhstan amid unrest
In Kazakhstan, the year had barely got going when yesterday disruptions of Internet access ended up in a nationwide Internet shutdown from today, January 5, 2022
GitHub Availability Report: December 2021
In December, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.